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Source Attribution

This category encompasses research aimed at identifying the relative contribution of different sectors, activities, and entities to global climate change. It includes research on the respective contributions of national governments and private corporations to increases in global greenhouse gas concentrations (through both emissions and land use changes). It also includes research on the respective obligations of different entities to mitigate their contributions to climate change.

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A unifying view of climate change in the Sahel linking intra-seasonal, interannual and longer time scales

April 2013
A Giannini, S Salack, T Lodoun, A Ali, A T Gaye and O Ndiaye
Environmental Research Letters
This study proposes a re-interpretation of the oceanic influence on the climate of the African Sahel that is consistent across observations and that resolves the uncertainty in projections change in this region. Read More →

Attribution of CO2 Emissions from Brazilian Deforestation to Consumers Between 1990 and 2010

April 2013
Jonas Karstensen, Glen P. Peters, Robbie M. Andrew
Environmental Research Letters
This study analyzes the connection between Brazilian deforestation and the global consumption of products reliant on deforested areas, such as cattle and soybeans. It highlights the growing role of trade in driving deforestation. Read More →

Building EORA: A Global Multi-Region Input–Output Database at High Country and Sector Resolution

March 2013
Manfred Lenzen, Daniel Moran, Keiichiro Kanemoto, Arne Geschke
Economic Systems Research
This paper describes results from a project to create an multi-region input-output (MIRO) table that represents all countries at a detailed sectoral level. Read More →

Detection and Attribution of Anthropogenic Climate Change Impacts

March 2013
Cynthia Rosenzweig, and Peter Neofotis
WIREs Climate Change
This paper argues that the expansion of methods of detection is key to discerning the climate sensitivities of sectors and systems in regions where the impacts of climate change currently remain elusive. Read More →

Report of the Conference of the Parties on its Eighteenth Session, held in Doha from 26 November to 8 December 2012

February 2013
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
This report shares the climate change mitigation and adaptation agreements of the Parties to the COP18. Read More →

Tackling Climate Change Through Livestock – A global assessment of emissions and mitigation opportunities

January 2013
Gerber, P.J., Steinfeld, H., Henderson, B., Mottet, A., Opio, C., Dijkman, J., Falcucci, A. & Tempio, G.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
This report provides a snapshot of the current state of FAO’s assessment work on livestock’s contribution to climate change. It draws on three technical reports addressing emissions from dairy cattle, ruminants and monogastrics.Read More →

A Synthesis of Carbon in International Trade

August 2012
G. P. Peters, S. J. Davis, R. Andrew
Biogeosciences
This paper synthesizes carbon transfer through emissions embodied in goods and services that are produced in one country but consumed in others, as well as carbon physically present in fossil fuels and other sources. Read More →

Aerosols implicated as a prime driver of twentieth-century North Atlantic climate variability

April 2012
Booth, B.B., Dunstone, N.J., Halloran, P.R., Andrews, T. and Bellouin, N
Nature
This paper uses a state-of-the-art Earth system climate model to show that aerosol emissions and periods of volcanic activity explain 76 per cent of the simulated multidecadal variance in detrended 1860–2005 North Atlantic sea surface temperatures. Read More →

Report of Greenhouse Gas Accounting Tools for Agriculture and Forestry Sectors

February 2012
Denef, K., K. Paustian, S. Archibeque, S. Biggar, D. Pape
USDA
This report provides an overview of publicly accessible tools (calculators, protocols, guidelines and models) for quantifying GHG emissions/offsets from agricultural and forestry activities, with a focus on farm/entity/project-level GHG accounting. Read More →

Equity in Climate Change: An Analytical Review

January 2012
Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
The World Bank
This paper presents an analytical framework to encompass contributions to the literature on equity in climate change, and highlights the consequences—in terms of future emissions allocations—of different approaches to equity. Read More →

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